Leonid Konstantinowitsch Artamonow

Colonel Leonid Artamonov (center) after his return from Ethiopia

Leonid Artamonov ( Russian Леонид Константинович Артамонов ., Scientific transliteration Leonid Konstantinović Artamonov * February 13 ^jul. / 25. February 1859 ^greg. In Kherson Gubernia , † 19 December 1931 ^jul. / 1. January 1932 ^greg. In Leningrad ) was a Russian engineer , explorer, and general in the Russian Army .

Life

Artamonov came from a Russian noble family and graduated from the military engineering university in Saint Petersburg. He then completed a course at the Military Academy of the Academy of the General Staff .

In 1897 he became a member of the Russian diplomatic mission in Ethiopia , where he became military advisor to Menelik II in order to take part in the military expedition of the Ethiopian army in the White Nile region to counteract the British colonial expansion.

From July 7, 1906 to December 14, 1908, he led the 22nd Infantry Division. Already in 1907 he had risen to lieutenant general , he took over command of the XVI on March 5, 1911. Army Corps. On March 17, 1911 he became Commanding General of the 1st Army Corps and in 1913 he was promoted to General of the Infantry .

At the beginning of the First World War he led his corps as part of the 2nd Army during the invasion of East Prussia . During the Battle of Tannenberg on August 27, 1914, the positions of his troops on the left wing were breached by the Germans in the Battle of Usdau . Because he then began the early retreat in southern direction to Mława , he was relieved of his command by his superior General Alexander Samsonov and replaced by General Alexander A. Dushkevich.

Web links

Artamonow, Leonid Konstantinowitsch (Russian)
Nikolaevsky Military Academy of Engineering (Russian)

Individual evidence

↑ Isidor Sawwitsch Kaznelson: Introduction to Leonid Konstantinowitsch Artamonow: Через Эфиопию к берегам Белого Нила (Through Ethiopia to the banks of the White Nile). Nauka, Moscow 1979.

personal data
SURNAME	Artamonow, Leonid Konstantinowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Леонид Константинович Артамонов
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian engineer, linguist and officer
DATE OF BIRTH	February 25, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kherson Governorate
DATE OF DEATH	January 1, 1932
Place of death	Leningrad

[1] Isidor Sawwitsch Kaznelson: Introduction to Leonid Konstantinowitsch Artamonow: Через Эфиопию к берегам Белого Нила (Through Ethiopia to the banks of the White Nile). Nauka, Moscow 1979.